2011-2012

Issues

Specific Votes

Percentage voting with party

November 2011

Tom Reed voted with the Republican Party 92.3% of the time, which ranked 147th among the 242 House Republican members as of December 2011.[6]

Fiscal Cliff

Reed voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels. He was one of 85 Republicans that voted in favor of the bill. The bill was passed in the House by a 257/167 vote on January 1, 2013.[7]

Elections

2012

Reed won re-election in 2012, but due to New York's redistricting, he ran in the newly drawn 23rd district.[8] He was unopposed in the Republican, Conservative, and Independence party primaries and defeated Nate Shinagawa (D) in the November 6, 2012, general election.[9][10]

Analysis

Congressional Staff Salaries

The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Reed paid his congressional staff a total of $861,003 in 2011. Overall, New York ranked 28th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.[14]

Net worth

2011

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org - The Center for Responsive Politics, Reed's net worth as of 2011 was estimated between $269,009 to $959,998. That averages to $614,503, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican House members in 2011 of $7,859,232. His average net worth decreased by 52.64% from 2010.[15]

2010

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org - The Center for Responsive Politics, Reed's net worth as of 2010 was estimated between $784,011 to $1,810,999. Averaging to a net worth of $1,297,505 which was lower than the average net worth of Republicans in 2010 of $7,561,133.[16]

National Journal vote ratings

2011

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of congress voted in the previous year. Reed tied with one other member of the U.S. House of Representatives, ranking 179th in the conservative rankings among members of the U.S. House.[17]

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Personal

Reed and his wife Jean live with their children, Autumn and Will, in Corning, New York.[18]